ANYWAY, I get to the point where it actually installs the packages, and then it seems to lock up when it's installing cvsupit-3.1. There's no error message, just this:

ADDING PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c

Package cvsupit-3.1 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)

That sounds like it would be a normal message, but in 2 attempts at install, I've gotten the same thing. Is that a NIC problem? Is it trying to go to the internet to do something, or is it just maybe a bad CD burn?Now, at hardware discovery it didn't find the exact module for my NIC, but I didn't see anywhere in the handbook where it said you had to have that driver done right then. So, I let it go...It let me put in my IP information without any problems later, so I thought it would be working fine. One thing that I noticed was a little strange was that when setting up the NIC, it asked me for my local DNS server, and I don't have one of those, so I gave it 198.6.1.5 (a UU Net server, if I'm not mistaken) as a DNS server. Could that cause the problem? I'm totally new to *BSD and a pretty big newbie to *nix in general , so any help would be appreciated!

This probably isn't the best place to ask for support on FreeBSD. I've never used it and I'm sure that a lot of people on these forums aren't familiar with it enough to be able to help with a question like that. I would look at some of their support mechanisms. http://www.freebsd.org/support.html_________________if i never try anything, i never learn anything..
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